Applied Physics Benchmark Reviewer and Author

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About AI Training and Benchmark Work

AI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Expert contributors write, review, and evaluate examples that help models reason more accurately, follow instructions, and produce reliable answers.

In this role, your physics expertise will support benchmark development. Carefully designed questions and solutions give AI systems a demanding test of conceptual understanding, mathematical reasoning, and technical precision.

The Role

OpenTrain is recruiting an Applied Physics Benchmark Reviewer and Author to create and assess high-quality academic content used to evaluate AI capabilities. You will work with challenging multiple-choice questions spanning semiconductor physics, nanoelectronics, spintronics, photonics, quantum optics, quantum sensing, plasma physics, nonlinear dynamics, turbulence, geophysics, and reservoir simulation.

The role combines doctoral-level subject expertise with careful judgment about whether each question is accurate, self-contained, unambiguous, rigorous, and solvable. This is a remote, part-time contractor opportunity requiring 20 or more hours per week, with compensation of $61 to $77 per hour.

• Contractor engagement with part-time status
• 20+ hours per week
• Worldwide opportunity
• English-language work
• Hourly compensation of $61-$77 USD

What You’ll Do

You will develop challenging assessment content and verify that every question can be answered fairly and rigorously. Your work will include both original question authoring and detailed review of existing material.

For each question, you will make the intended solution and evaluation standard clear while documenting the reasoning behind corrections and edits.

• Author original physics questions that test conceptual understanding rather than surface-level recall.
• Review questions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, precision, and solvability.
• Edit questions when technical or presentation issues are identified.
• Rate questions as medium, hard, or expert based on expected academic level.
• Develop one correct answer and nine plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Prepare clear step-by-step solutions with concise intermediate steps.
• Provide one to five references per question from peer-reviewed journals or university repositories.
• Document the reasoning behind corrections and edits made during verification.

Requirements

This role requires advanced physics training and the ability to distinguish subtle technical errors in demanding academic content. Doctoral-level physics preparation is central to the work, even though the opportunity is classified as entry level.

You should be able to communicate complex ideas precisely in written English and apply mathematical formalism accurately when authoring or reviewing questions.

• PhD or doctoral candidacy in Physics, Applied Physics, Astrophysics, or a closely related field.
• Doctoral-level physics training or equivalent advanced subject expertise.
• Strong command of graduate-level physics concepts and mathematical formalism.
• Depth in at least one covered physics domain.
• Ability to design rigorous, unambiguous multiple-choice questions.
• Skill in evaluating technical accuracy, solvability, and subtle distractor quality.
• Ability to explain mathematical reasoning clearly in written English.

Helpful Background

Experience writing physics olympiad problems or designing other rigorous academic assessments is valuable. Depth in one or more of the role’s covered areas is especially relevant when paired with strong question-design and verification skills.

• Physics olympiad writing
• Academic problem or assessment design
• Quantum optics or photonics
• Plasma physics
• Semiconductor physics
• Geophysics
• Other advanced applied physics specialties

Build Your AI Training Career

AI training and data-labeling work is a rapidly growing part of technology. Contributors use specialized knowledge to write examples, evaluate model responses, and improve how state-of-the-art AI systems perform.

OpenTrain helps you build a profile that showcases credible experience and makes it easier to grow from individual projects into a durable career in AI training. Apply through OpenTrain to put your applied physics expertise to work on cutting-edge AI evaluation.